Word: amoeboid
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Women's groups at Harvard are amoeboid: they proliferate by fattening and subdivide spontaneously. The groups take pride in their lack of structure, so that it is difficult to isolate specific organizers. "We are leaderless," said Susan Cole '74, active in Radcliffe Women to Keep Mind and Body Together. Questioned about their activities, each member adds links to a long chain of referrals by naming three or four others who can provide information. Gone is the competition which predominates wherever one can vie for political position...